Julian, who runs a Thai boxing club as a front organization for his family's drug smuggling operation, is forced by his mother Crystal to find and kill the individual responsible for his brother's recent death.
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A private user reviewed Only God Forgives (2013)
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Nicholas Winding Refn's follow up to Drive has been the subject of a lot of chatter. Some of it good, some of it bad. I guess for me, the film falls into the slightly above average category. In the majority of the film, Refn relies on visual imagery to set the mood and tone throughout the brisk 90 minute run time. I felt that it was a major plus. There are some great shots of Bangkok. The mood is very dark, cool stuff. The problem for me with Only God Forgives is some of the eye candy simply didn't seem to make any sense. You get close ups of kickboxing warrior busts. Sure, he looks badass, but what does it mean? Ryan Gosling steps in his role as Julian, and literally has maybe 10 lines in the entire film. Kristin Scott-Thomas plays the uber bitch family matriarch Crystal, with such an aura dispicableness, that it makes you wonder how she even had children. I'll tell you what if there is a cop like Vithaya Pansringarm's Chang living in Bangkok, he needs to do the world a favor and clean up the pedophiles. With him on the watch, I guarantee the world would be a better place.
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